The Maritime Executive
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Crew Rescued After Container Feeder Sinks off Singapore
On Friday night, a small container ship went down in the middle of the Strait of Singapore, just hours after leaving the pier. At...
Treasury Blacklists Six More LPG Carriers for Moving Iranian Gas
On Friday, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control put sanctions on six more Iran-linked LPG carriers, adding to the long list o...
Kinahan Cartel Linked to Iran’s IRGC Dark Fleet Operations
Reports in the UK's Sunday Times are linking the seizure of an OFAC-sanctioned VLCC tanker, the Majestic X (IMO 9198317), to the K...
Report: Preventable PSC Detentions are Increasing Across the Fleet
Port state control detentions have risen by about 70 percent over the past five years, even though the number of inspections has s...
Ghana’s New Drydock Project Progresses After Successful Financing Round
Ship diversions around Cape of Good Hope have seen vessel traffic growth along the West African coastline. Additionally, recent ex...
Damen Delivers Fourth Combi Freighter 3850 to Reederei Bernd Sibum
[By: Damen Shipyards Group] Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the fourth Combi Freighter (CF) 3850 in an order of four to Reeder...
Economic Fury Tightens Stranglehold on Iranian Dark Fleet
On June 2, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) tightened its controls on Iranian dark-fleet activities by de...
Braving the Dangers in the Strait of Hormuz
For several days, US forces have responded to a number of IRGC attacks in the Strait of Hormuz area by launching counterattacks of...
DNV and Kongsberg Maritime Enable Secure Operational Vessel Data Exchange
[By: Kongsberg Maritime] DNV and Kongsberg Maritime have entered into an agreement to enable secure, standardised exchange of Oper...
GenFlat Completes 1st Production of Patented Collapsible Shipping Container
[By: GenFlat Holdings, Inc.] GenFlat Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: GFLT) (“GenFlat”), a pioneer in sustainable collapsible container tech...